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Will Gold Plating hurt the Paint
on a Vehicle?
NO. At least the chemicals in
a THREE STEP gold plating process will not hurt the paint on a vehicle. Although
they can remove the WAX on a paint job.
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PLEASE
NOTE: The chemicals involved in a TWO STEP gold plating process are harsher
chemicals and they typically use an stronger acid based chemical to remove
the chrome and activate the nickel. The stronger acid based chemical does
exactly that, remove the chrome and activate the nickel, and
the stronger acid based chemicals can, and will, damage the paint on a
vehicle. One person explained it to me as being tricky to work with.
The chemicals used in brush plating,
like the chemicals used in TANK PLATING are relatively mild and will not hurt the finish.
However, proper Gold Plating requires that all parts you gold plate be thoroughly rinsed
off with distilled water to remove any chemical residue.
Paint, and many other elements on a
vehicle are what is technically called NON-CONDUCTIVE. What this means is the paint will
not conduct electricity.
It is important to note you can run
into a circumstance when you do gold plating of HOOD ORNAMENTS. Granted, Hood Ornaments
are UNCOMMON on many vehicles today. However, they do exist. And, typically, they are on
the expensive vehicles.
Picture you are working on a Cadillac
with a Hood Ornament doing the steps of Gold Plating on the Hood Ornament. The hood
ornament and the grill are both conductive and connected indirectly in an electrically
significant manner.
What that means is this. If you do the
chrome stripping step and the chrome stripping chemical runs down off of the hood ornament
onto the grill, the ELECTRICAL BRIDGE you created will start to strip the chrome off of
the grill.
You can prevent this by sealing off the
area with electrical tape and plastic garbage bags. We cover this, and other little items
in our detailed manual.
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